Ticket-holder.



B. N. VAN FLEET.

TICKET HOLDER APPLICATION FILED MAR.14, 1912.

Paizented- Oct. 21, 1913.

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IIITED S BRUCE 1\T. VAN FLEET, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

TICKET-HOLDER.

Application filed March 14, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Bnuon N. VAN FLEET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, county of Cumberland, State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ticket holders and particularly to a device for holding the price ticket on a vending tray.

In many businesses it is necessary to display articles to be sold in trays and in order to economize space it is extremely desirable that the trays should be set closely together. In placing the ticket on the tray it is, therefore, necessary to provide means which shall be secure and not liable to be lost or changed and that such means cause no interference with the adjacent parts of other boxes. It is also frequently necessary to have trays of different depths while preserving the unit possibilities of a standard size. To this end I have further provided for the combination of my ticket holder with a unitary double or reversible tray of different depth of recess on its two sides.

To these ends I have devised my present invention by which I am able to produce a simple and effective structure at a low cost.

The embodiment which I have selected as apparently most effective to the ends above set forth I shall more particularly describe in the specification which follows and I have shown the same in the accompanying drawings.

Throughout specification and drawings like reference numerals are employed to indicate corresponding parts and in the drawings:Figure 1 is a plan. view of a tray with card holder in place, Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of tray and holder; and Fig. 3 is a front view of holder partly broken away.

The tray 1 is preferably provided with a transverse partition 10 set intermediate of the tray edges but at an unequal distance therefrom so as to form oppositely disposed trays of unequal depth. These are each usually preferably divided by a partition 11. My holder which is to be used on this or some similar tray consists of a T-shaped clip. In this clip the upright member at terminates at its free or lower end in a spring lip or hook 8. At its upper end it joins the cross piece 7 with a fan shaped Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21,1913.

Serial No. 683,805.

throat a which terminates just inside of the ends of the cross piece 7. This leaves a footing for the lips '7 which are bent at substantially right angles to the parts 4 and 7 and are adapted to receive the upper edge of the box side. The top edge of the member 7 is bent down at an angle, preferably about forty-five degrees to a distance from the member 7 of approximately the thickness of the tray end 1. It is then bent straight down, as at 6, to form the inner flange of the recess bounded by the walls 7, 5 and 6 and across which the spring lips 7 extend to form a yielding stop.

On the inclined part 5 is mounted by soldering or in any other suitable way a ticket clip. This clip is formed by folding over three of the four margins of an oblong strip of metal to form flanges 2 under which a price ticket 3 may he slipped.

Various modifications in the form and arrangement of my illustrative embodiment herein shown may obviously be made, all without departing from the spirit of my invention if within the limits of the appended claims.

WVhat I, therefore, claim and desire to secure by Letter Patent is 1. A ticket holder comprising a card support and a clamp, said clamp being formed from a T-shaped metal blank having the upper edge of its cross-piece bent over to form a transverse recess and a portion of the lower edge of said cross-piece bent inwardly across said recess to form a yielding abutment for one edge of a tray side and the lower end of the upright bent into a spring hook and adapted to engage the other edge of said side.

2. A ticket holder comprising a card support and a clamp having an upright piece and a cross piece, the upper edge of said cross piece bent to define a transverse recess adapted to engage an edge of a container side and portions of the lower edge of said cross piece bent across said recess to form yielding abutments for said edge of the container side and said upright piece bent at its lower end to detachably engage the other edge of the container side.

3. A. ticket holder comprising a card support and a Tshaped clamp, said clamp having an edge receiving channel, the upright piece of said clamp terminating just inside of the ends of the cross piece, and spring lips turned in from the material thus left and extending transversely of the channel to form yielding abutments.

4:. A ticket holder comprising a card support and a clamp engaged over the lower edge of a container side at one end and extending slightly beyond the upper edge of said container side at its other end, said clamp having its top side inclined from said extended part to form a bearing wall for the card support and having a wall bent downwardly from said inclined wall, said extended inclined and downwardly bent parts defining a transverse recess adapted to engage the upper edge of said container side, and said clamp having an edge bent inwardly across said transverse recess to form a yielding abutment for the upper edge of the container side.

5. A ticket holder comprising a'card sup- 20 port and a clamp having a cross plece and an upright piece the top side of the cross piece inclined to form a bearing wall for the card support, a wall bent downwardly from said inclined wall, said last named wall and the topside of the clamp head defining an edge receiving recess, the upright piece of said clamp head terminating just inside of the ends of the cross piece and spring lips turned in from the material thus left and extending transversely of said recess to form yielding abutinents.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. BRUCEsN. VAN FLEET. lVitnesses 1 C. A. BRADLEY, ANNIE L. DIGGINS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, [by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D, C. 

